AWS received a Leader rating in the Forrester Wave ranking for AI infrastructure
Forrester Research named AWS a Leader in the report Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions Q4 2025 (13 providers evaluated), with the highest score in the strategy category and a maximum of 5.00 in 16 criteria.
The analyst firm Forrester Research named AWS a Leader in the report The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025, published on 16 December 2025. AWS reported this assessment on its Amazon Machine Learning Blog. As part of the assessment, Forrester evaluated 13 AI infrastructure providers against criteria including their current offering, strategy and customer feedback. According to the report, AWS received the highest score in the Strategy category and the maximum possible score of 5.00 in 16 individual criteria.
According to AWS, its approach to AI infrastructure combines its own AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium accelerators with NVIDIA GPU instances, which is intended to allow customers to choose suitable computing power for a specific task without being locked into a single hardware vendor. In the report cited by AWS, Forrester stated that custom silicon from AWS delivers strong performance for common tasks, while NVIDIA covers the most demanding scenarios, and praised the roadmap for further chip development and closer integration with services such as Amazon SageMaker.
According to the quotation in the report, Forrester recommends AWS primarily for companies with high-volume or elastic inference workloads that prioritize cost efficiency but also need access to GPUs for scenarios requiring peak performance. The source article does not provide specific assessments of the other 12 providers included in the comparison or their rankings.
Why it matters
This report is intended primarily for companies choosing or planning to select an AI infrastructure provider for training and running models at scale. The independent assessment from Forrester may serve as one source of information when comparing offerings, although the report from AWS itself is published by AWS and should be treated as a promotional summary of the findings of the analyst firm, rather than an independent assessment of all 13 providers compared.
Relevant practical impact
What this means
For a business
Companies choosing an AI infrastructure provider now have an additional independent signal from Forrester Research that AWS offers a combination of its own chip (Inferentia, Trainium) and NVIDIA GPU without locking customers into a single vendor, which may influence decisions when planning training and inference costs.
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